Cutting ashlaes



W, BOULTQN. GUTTING ASHLARS.

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nited tatrz WILIAM BOULTON., OF TOMPKINSVILLE, 'STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No; 105,633, dated July 26, .1870.

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Be it known that 1; Wrnnmu Bonmorr, of Tomp the county of Richmond and State of New York, have nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cutting-or. Making Ashlars, and building and coustructing walls for hhildings and other purposes composed of ashlar's so' cut, and brick or stone and Ido' hereby declare -that the following is a full, clear, and ex'act description of the same, ref erence 'beinghad to the accompanying drawing, which makes part 'thel'eof, and in which- Figura 1 v represents a. view,l in perspectire, of lmy improvement, showing a corner section of-'the wall, the form of the asbiars, and the manner of laying the courses of brick or stone,the flange of 'the Aashlars being 4laid between the several courses of brick or stone-work; I

`Fignre` 2 represents a section of a' Block of stone or marble, showing the manner in which a. block of stone or marble is cut into ashlars, havng a flange uponone side; and

Figure 3 i rpresents'a 'Yerticaltrensverse section of the well,:composed in w'h'ole' of asblar and stone or lublle, o r' composedin part of 'stone and in part 'of Having stated-the nature and object of my invention,-I proceed'to describe its operation n".the cut- 'ting'of 'ashlars -from a block of stone or marble, ae' -represented by Figura 6.

' The' block is 'cut alternately on the top .and bottoln of the 'tliickness required for the one side, and of the lar is' then 'cut separately and alternately from the block. When one, is cut, it is removed. so as to gain room for cutting the next, and so on 4alternately to.

the end of the' block,- by which p'ecu'liar mode'oi' outting the stone nearly double the surface for faciug is obtained, and, at.the same time, the advantage of ,i

Witnesses:

F; P. Lovnenow, W. S. Homnenm 

